π Click here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app π Beth joins the prime minister on his historic trip to China, where he has met the country’s president, Xi Jinping. It’s a trip that has sparked debate back in the UK, amid worries over espionage and security. But has it helped reset…
CIF City Section and Southern Section high school boys’ and girls’ basketball scores for Friday’s games.
Donald Trump has endorsed a spending deal negotiated by US Senate Republicans and Democrats that would stave off a government shutdown and temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security. The move comes as the US reels from the deaths of two protesters at the hands of federal agents in Minneapolis. “Republicans and Democrats have come…
It is painful to have to write about Catherine OβHara, so alive and lively a presence, in the past tense. OβHara has lived inside my head β is it too corny to say my heart? β from βSCTVβ to βSchittβs Creekβ to βThe Studio,β on whose second season she was scheduled to start work, when…
Jeffrey Epstein wired thousands of pounds after Lord Peter Mandelson’s husband asked him to pay for his osteopathy course fees, according to emails included in newly released Epstein files. More than three million documents were published by the US Department of Justice on Friday relating to disgraced paedophile financier Epstein. On 7 September 2009, Lord…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ A budget impasse in Congress is poised to halt large swaths of federal operations early Saturday as lawmakers in Capitol Hill turn to the next flashpoint in negotiations to reopen the government: whether to impose new limits on federal immigration authorities carrying out President Trumpβs deportation campaign. Over the next two weeks, Democrats and Republicans…
U.S. skiing great Lindsey Vonn says her βOlympic dream is not overβ after crashing and injuring her left knee during a downhill race that was meant to be her final warmup before the start of the Milan Cortina Games next week. βI crashed today in the Downhill race in Switzerland and injured my left knee,β…
The dismantling of Sanjeev Gupta’s British business empire is accelerating after advisers were hired to find a buyer for a steel production business which supplies oil giants including BP and Shell. Sky News has learnt that Liberty Steel’s Hartlepool-based steel pipes unit, which employs about 170 people, is hunting a buyer within weeks. Industry sources…
For years at CNN, Don Lemon had been a thorn in the side of President Trump, frequently taking him to task during his first term over his comments about immigrants and other matters. On Friday, the former CNN anchor β now an independent journalist who hosts his own YouTube show β was in a Los…
Keir Starmer describes himself as a “British pragmatist” who takes a “common sense” approach. When it comes to global affairs, and domestic ones too, he isn’t one to grandstand, he’d rather try to get things done. That has been the entire tenor of his three-day visit to China as the former human rights lawyer-turned prime…